Toll from Pakistan quake rises to 208 people – official

 

ISLAMABAD : The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Pakistan rose to at least 208 people today after hundreds of houses collapsed in a remote mountainous area, a local official said.

“We have started to bury the dead,” said Abdul Rasheed Gogazai, the deputy commissioner of Awaran, the most affected district in Baluchistan province. He said at least 373 people were wounded.

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